Ferrari 488 Pista review: scintillating and brilliant, but have we reached peak supercar?

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Back in the day my old friend Dave bought a Canon Sure Shot camera. It was Canon’s first autofocus 35mm compact and much admired, but Dave had bought it for another reason. “There are no extras,” he proudly announced. “You can’t buy anything more for it; this is it, as good as it gets.”

A few months later Canon bought out an optional close-up lens. It wasn’t very good, but Dave was heartbroken.

It must be the same for people who buy the latest in supercars, with a terrible sense of inevitability that they will be usurped from the top table within years, more likely months, by the special, the race version, the limited edition, the bigger, better, stronger and longer upgrade.